Keeping Tabs: 7-Plus Links I’m Digging #1

Week after week I find myself with WAY too many Firefox browser tabs up with awesome content that’s helping me improve our business … and no place to really share it all.

My intent is to share tips, links and commentary on the things that can help you, your business, your website/blog and your marketing better. This is what I’m most passionate about and want to pass along what I’m learning.

In two years of running iThemes, I’ve found this to be true. Fast and responsive emails, especially from the person most passionate and invested in the business (often the founder, but love how are whole team is too) can build superfans.

Check out BuddyPress then! I met John James Jacoby, one of the lead developers of BuddyPress at SXSW in Austin recently and started reviewing the progress on BuddyPress. I have to say I’m excited about the possibilities. We’ve been working hard to emphasize community at iThemes and some of the elements with BP look delicious for that. I hope to have JJJ on a webinar very, very soon to talk about the ins and outs.

Chris Jean has been working with and talking to Scott Kingsley Clark, one of the core developers of Pods, since WordCamp Dallas. I’m very intrigued with this free GPL plugin. It can do so much by building custom content types. Scott’s getting married April 11 (congrats!) and we’re hoping to have him on a webinar very soon to talk about Pods.

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The JJJ webinar is a great idea. There’s a small market of buddypress premium child theme developers, who’ve tried to establish brand recognition early, but almost no good educational material outside of some WP.tv stuff on building buddypress template pages and themes.

I anticipate that BuddyPress will grow fairly rapidly in popularity after WP3.0 received broad distribution, after an advanced points system is implemented, and after building non-stock BP themes becomes easier (through better documentation and training) or more (good) themes are available for people who want more hassle-free solutions. I’d love to see the Ithemes team lead the way on this.

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